Re: TAO & omniORB license clarification
Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> writes:
> > > You may copy and extend functionality (but may not remove functionality)
> > > of the Interface Definition Language CFE without charge, but you are not
> > > authorized to license or distribute it to anyone else except as part of a
> > > product or program developed by you or with the express written consent
> > > of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun").
> It can't even go into no-free, can it? One is only allowed to
> distribute it as part of a program one has developed oneself.
Please forget this. When reading the license carefully it says that
the program author *may* license his derived work for copying by
a third party (e.g. Debian). Of course this helps nothing with the
DFSG, but it should be able to be in non-free still.
--
Henning Makholm
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